Message by Larry Thacker Jr. from February 12, “Food for Thought”
We’ll be continuing our journey through the gospel of John with Chapter 6. Versus 1-14 present to us a story many of us probably grew up hearing. It is one of the few that occur in all four of the Gospel accounts. Jesus takes 5 little loaves of bread and two small fish, and feeds over 5,000 people. It’s a great story, but what makes it so great that all the Gospel writers felt the need to include it in their chronicles of the things that Jesus did? It shows the power and provision of God, but is there more here? I think that’s why John also writes about this even though Mark, Matthew, and Luke had already recorded it. He provides us with some details that they did not, and in the rest of the chapter he shows us why Jesus did what he did. It seems to me the key is in verse 4.
